Numbers 25:6

Just then ¹  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ²  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ³  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁴  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Nu 15:30,31; Nu 22:4; Nu 25:14,15; Nu 31:2,9-16; De 29:19-21; Jud 2:4; Ezr 9:1-4; Ezr 10:6-9; Isa 22:12; Jer 3:3; Jer 8:12; Jer 36:23; Jer 42:15-18; Jer 43:4-7; Jer 44:16,17; Eze 9:4-6; Joe 2:17; 2Pe 2:13-15; Jude 1:13

¹ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

² tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

³ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

⁴ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.